ART. 80.] REPORTER — STATE.

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moved by said judges, and shall be styled the state
reporter, and shall be re-eligible from time to time.

2. He shall receive an annual salary of one thou-
sand dollars.

Ibid s 2.
Salary

3. He shall report and publish all cases argued
and determined in the court of appeals of this state,
from and after the passage of this act, designated by
said court to be reported, within six months from
the time when the same shall have been determined ;
the reports in all cases shall be limited to a state-
ment of the material facts, the principal points and
authorities relied on by the respective counsel, the
opinion of the court, and an abstract or head note of
the points decided ; and each volume of said reports
shall also contain a list of the cases therein reported,
a list of the cases decided during the period embraced
in the volume designated by the court as not to be
reported, and a copious index.

Ibid s 3.
His duties.

4. Each volume of the reports shall contain at
least six hundred pages, and shall be printed on
good paper to be selected and purchased by the
reporter, at the cost of the state, with clear type,
and in size, form, quality of materials and quantity
of matter per page, shall correspond as nearly as
possible with the eighteenth volume of Maryland

Ibid s 4
Printing and
publishing the
reports

reports, and shall be sold at a price of five dollars
a volume in fine law binding, or four dollars and a
half when not bound; and shall be printed, pub-
lished and bound at the expense of the reporter,

Price

who shall be entitled to the copy-right of the vol-
umes.

Copyright.

5. The state shall take two hundred copies of each
volume of said reports, at the price of six dollars per
volume, delivered at the state library, being at the
rate of two dollars per page, of a single volume of
six hundred pages, and at the same rate when the
volume may exceed six hundred pages.

In force from March 21, 1867.

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Ibid s 5
State subscrip-
tion.